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Year 5 Maths worksheets

KS2 Maths Puzzle Pack, TheSchoolRun

KS2 maths puzzles: Secret Agent maths

Are you ready to uncover dastardly deeds and confront super-evil villains, armed just with your mathematical skills and lots of courage? Join Oscar Octo and Penelope Penta, agents for the Geometric World Spy Agency, to track down a mysterious nemesis. There'll be a few (ok, a load!) of number puzzles to solve along the way, all designed to challenge KS2 mathematicians to the limit. Will you accept your mission?
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Prime number puzzle

Prime number puzzle

Noah has an unusual ark. He only takes animals grouped in prime numbers. Zoe has a zoo that takes animals that are not in prime numbers. Which of the animals below go in the ark and
which into the zoo?
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Non-verbal reasoning patterns

Non-verbal reasoning patterns

A non-verbal reasoning worksheet created by an educational expert, which provides questions and answers for non-verbal reasoning patterns (or sequences).
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Choose the route: all four operations

Choose the route: all four operations

Starting with the number on the left, work out which route the boy takes to get to the orange house. Which route does he take to get to the blue house?
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Choose the route: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

Choose the route: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

Starting with the number on the left, work out which route the girl takes to get to the pink house. Which route does she take to get to the purple house?
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Arrow route calculations

Arrow route calculations

Starting at the green circle at the top, can you follow the arrows and complete each calculation to get to the final solution? Write it in the pink rectangle.
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Reading a Carroll diagram

Reading a Carroll diagram

This Carroll diagram shows the hair and eye colour combinations of a group of children. Can you answer the questions about the diagram?
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Year 5 maths booster pack

Year 5 maths booster pack

Rounding speed challenges, zoo subtraction problems, spotting square numbers and a little bit of pizza maths... it's all included in the Year 5 maths booster pack, designed to help your child practise and revise the key KS2 maths skills they've learned at school.
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Summer brain-boosting challenges learning pack

Summer brain-boosting challenges

Juggle fruit. Work on the technology of the future. Plot and design a lost city, create a zoo of invented animals, learn to talk sdrawkcab and bake a pizza clock and a pastry map. How many of our wonderful brain-boosting challenges can you fit into your summer? All you need are some art materials, imagination and an enquiring mind to have a go at a whole host of practical and reflective activities, suitable for primary-school children (and parents, of course). Have fun!
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Completing a symmetrical shape worksheet

Completing a symmetrical shape

The line down the middle of a symmetrical shape (the same on both sides) is called the line of symmetry. The grid on this worksheet shows a quarter of a shape that has two lines of symmetry. Can you complete the shape? Use a mirror to help if you need to.
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Making numbers from number cards

Making numbers from number cards

Cut out the number cards then see if you can match them to give the answers to these tricky problems.
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Guess the number quick puzzles

Guess the number quick puzzles

Are you smart enough to work out this number puzzle? Challenge mum or dad and see if they can do it quicker than you.
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Fractions problem worksheet

Fractions problem

Rendham Village have held their annual dance. By the end of the day, they have made £500. Can you help them work out how to split the money between their chosen charities?
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Creating a symmetrical pattern worksheet

Creating a symmetrical pattern

This shape has a vertical mirror line. Can you shade in more of the small rectangles so that both sides of the shape are symmetrical?
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Y5 maths Progress checks, TheSchoolRun

Year 5 maths Progress checks

Decimals, negative numbers, equivalent fractions and nets of 3D shapes... does your child find any Y5 maths topics tricky? Our Y5 maths progress checks, written by a teacher, are designed to help you see how your child is progressing and identify any areas where they need some extra practice.
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Rounding to find approximate answers

Rounding to find approximate answers

When you have carried out a long calculation it is a good idea to check your result by finding an approximate answer in your head. Work out the answers to these questions using whatever method you feel comfortable with. Then check your answer by rounding the numbers up or down then finding an approximate answer in your head.
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Reading and writing larger numbers

Reading and writing larger numbers

This table shows the place value of each of the digits of the large number above. Can you say the number above? Can you write it in words? Look at these numbers and put
the commas in where you think they should go. Say them out loud and then write them in words.
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Perimeter and area compared

Perimeter and area compared

The perimeter is the distance all the way around the outside of a 2D shape. Area is the amount of space a surface takes up. We measure area in square units. Can you answer these questions (it may help you to draw these shapes on centimetre-squared paper)?
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Multiplying using long multiplication

Multiplying using long multiplication

A quick way to multiply a three-digit number by a two-digit number is by using the long multiplication method. Here are some for you to try (there are some multiplications with four-digit numbers in here, but don’t worry, the method is still the same!). Use the boxes to help you set out your numbers correctly!
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Reflecting, rotating and translating shapes

Reflecting, rotating and translating shapes

A KS2 maths worksheet created by an experienced teacher to help your child understand reflecting, rotating and translating shapes.

Can you draw this shape’s reflection in the mirror line?
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